In-reply-to » Today's #AdventofCode #2023 was a bit of a whoozie 🤣 Not only did I have to work today (today being Monday et all), but also had to deal with a minor incident, then have dinner, etc and by the time I got back to my half-finished day 4 puzzle, I got a bit stuck with the 2nd part 🤦‍♂️ I guess I don't really like array manipulation, it's so easy to get lost 🤣

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Ahh I can sort of see the visualization (sort of), but it’ll be faster if you explain wtf the algorithm is in textual form 😅

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In-reply-to » @prologic @xuu Don't think I can reply to the thread in twtwt. Right now Jenny is not working for some reason. I wonder if @movq has any ideas. Anyway I am happy to be back and will see if I can get jenny working. Though my following list is gone now. Plus I can't see when someone mentions me if I am not follwing them so I should work on that.

@jason@jasonsanta.xyz If you can describe the problem, maybe I can help.

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In-reply-to » Today's #AdventofCode #2023 was a bit of a whoozie 🤣 Not only did I have to work today (today being Monday et all), but also had to deal with a minor incident, then have dinner, etc and by the time I got back to my half-finished day 4 puzzle, I got a bit stuck with the 2nd part 🤦‍♂️ I guess I don't really like array manipulation, it's so easy to get lost 🤣

@prologic@twtxt.net I can try to explain, if you want to know. 😅 Or maybe this guy’s visualization will help (if you can see it, not sure): https://old.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/18af47j/2023_day_4_scratchcard_counting/

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A couple centimeters of snow today. 😊 And I’ve got a loooooooong vacation coming up. Time to relax. 😃

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This is my favorite time of the year – by far. Even if it means the snow will freeze in my beard. 😂

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In-reply-to » Today's #AdventofCode #2023 was a bit of a whoozie 🤣 Not only did I have to work today (today being Monday et all), but also had to deal with a minor incident, then have dinner, etc and by the time I got back to my half-finished day 4 puzzle, I got a bit stuck with the 2nd part 🤦‍♂️ I guess I don't really like array manipulation, it's so easy to get lost 🤣

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Haha I’m too stupid to work out what that trick is 😆 Or too tied or both 🤣

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In-reply-to » Today's #AdventofCode #2023 was a bit of a whoozie 🤣 Not only did I have to work today (today being Monday et all), but also had to deal with a minor incident, then have dinner, etc and by the time I got back to my half-finished day 4 puzzle, I got a bit stuck with the 2nd part 🤦‍♂️ I guess I don't really like array manipulation, it's so easy to get lost 🤣

@prologic@twtxt.net (Mild spoilers ahead.)

Today’s puzzle was one of those where I immediately knew that there must be a solution that does not require actually copying anything. AoC often has these kinds of problems that make it look like you have to create lots of duplicates, multiply objects, stuff like that. That’s often a sign that you can solve it by doing something simple. 😅 (If only that was true in real life as well. 😂)

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Today’s #AdventofCode #2023 was a bit of a whoozie 🤣 Not only did I have to work today (today being Monday et all), but also had to deal with a minor incident, then have dinner, etc and by the time I got back to my half-finished day 4 puzzle, I got a bit stuck with the 2nd part 🤦‍♂️ I guess I don’t really like array manipulation, it’s so easy to get lost 🤣

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In-reply-to » @prologic @xuu Don't think I can reply to the thread in twtwt. Right now Jenny is not working for some reason. I wonder if @movq has any ideas. Anyway I am happy to be back and will see if I can get jenny working. Though my following list is gone now. Plus I can't see when someone mentions me if I am not follwing them so I should work on that.

@prologic@twtxt.net Great now I can start using twtxt and reply.

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In-reply-to » @prologic @xuu Don't think I can reply to the thread in twtwt. Right now Jenny is not working for some reason. I wonder if @movq has any ideas. Anyway I am happy to be back and will see if I can get jenny working. Though my following list is gone now. Plus I can't see when someone mentions me if I am not follwing them so I should work on that.

@jason@jasonsanta.xyz Yes it does ! 😁

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In-reply-to » @prologic @xuu Don't think I can reply to the thread in twtwt. Right now Jenny is not working for some reason. I wonder if @movq has any ideas. Anyway I am happy to be back and will see if I can get jenny working. Though my following list is gone now. Plus I can't see when someone mentions me if I am not follwing them so I should work on that.

@prologic@twtxt.net Does putting the hash in my reply work?

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In-reply-to » @prologic @xuu Don't think I can reply to the thread in twtwt. Right now Jenny is not working for some reason. I wonder if @movq has any ideas. Anyway I am happy to be back and will see if I can get jenny working. Though my following list is gone now. Plus I can't see when someone mentions me if I am not follwing them so I should work on that.

@jason@jasonsanta.xyz At the very least you can copy/paste the subject and hash in your reply 😆

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In-reply-to » Day 3, Part 1 and Day 3, Part 2 of #AdventOfCode #2023 done 🥳 -- My solution isn't very efficient though 🤦‍♂️ But it'll do 🤣

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Hah 😅 Hmm 🤔 Yeah all I had to do in the 2nd part was store the YX coordinate of the Symbol for the part, then transpose all the parts into a map of SymbolYX -> Part(s) Note that I call it YX and not XY because the usual way of dealing with this in code, is rows first, then columns, ro Y then X 😅

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In-reply-to » I rotated June to September into their own archive feeds. I hope I didn't mess up. There's still one or the other manual step involved. I should write a few tests and automate it fully. It might also be a good idea to write a validator program which can check all the feeds for consistency.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @prologic@twtxt.net At least my recent messages seem to still work then. :-) Thanks to both of you.

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In-reply-to » I rotated June to September into their own archive feeds. I hope I didn't mess up. There's still one or the other manual step involved. I should write a few tests and automate it fully. It might also be a good idea to write a validator program which can check all the feeds for consistency.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I don’t even think I notice 😅

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In-reply-to » I rotated June to September into their own archive feeds. I hope I didn't mess up. There's still one or the other manual step involved. I should write a few tests and automate it fully. It might also be a good idea to write a validator program which can check all the feeds for consistency.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org All I can say is: My client didn’t report any errors. :-) (Does that mean anything? 😅)

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In-reply-to » Day 2, Part 1 and Day 2, Part 2 of #AdvenOfCode all done and dusted 😅

@xuu@txt.sour.is Ah, you went with the “scanning” approach as well. I did that, too.

It’s quite surprising to see (imho) how many people on reddit started substituting strings (one becomes 1 etc.). That makes the puzzle much harder by introducing nasty corner cases.

(Maybe I was just lucky this time to pick the correct approach right from the start. 🤣 Or maybe it’s a bit of experience from doing past AoC events …)

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